Study for 'Summer Slumber': Statue with Pitcher

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Drawing details

Title: Study for 'Summer Slumber': Statue with Pitcher
Date: c.1893
Media: Black and white chalk on grey-brown paper
Dimensions: 30.2 x 28.5 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/0664
Inscriptions: Stamped lower left "LLC" encircled, in black ink. Inscribed on reverse, centre "K40" encircled, in pencil.

Description

Centre of sheet: full-length study for the statue of a seated female figure with a pitcher, seen to the right of the painting 'Summer Slumber' (c.1894, private collection). Upper right of sheet: full-length study of a female figure, possibly for the same statue but sitting upright and holding the pitcher on her lap with both hands. 

Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his sisters, Mrs. Augusta Matthews (n+e Augusta Neunburg Leighton, 1835-1919) and Mrs. Alexandra Orr (n+e Alexandra Leighton, 1828-1903); purchased by the Fine Art Society in 1896; collection of Leighton House Museum 

Bibliography

• Ormond, Leon+e and Richard, 'Lord Leighton', Yale University Press, London, 1975, p.169 (listed under catalogue number 334)